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Killing Jedi with mama

Obi-Wan: is this really the most effective seating arrangement?

Cody: just drive, Jedi boy

Obi-Wan: Jedi boy?!?

Cody: Sorry. Jedi boy, sir

Obi-wan: …

Where It All Began

Yes to everything.

Also, even tho Crosshair and Echo weren't there, they weren't dead, they were just gone, in another place.

The rest of the batch weren't mourning, at least not in the 'they're never coming back way' sense (bc they were mourning, as in he's taking another path and he isn't with us rn)

Tech had a great capacity of adaptability, he said it himself, and he was used to putting aside his feelings and making the changes that were necessary and gave them the better odds of survival (hence plan 99). You compared him with an engine, and I agree. He was the engine, he hacked into things and made plans and quick calculations, knew the best strategies to optimize the team, and was usually the one who got the information- and he was the medic in the team.

So after plan 99, not only did they lack his abilities to solve the problems they encountered, which was exactly what they needed, they also could not deal with the pain of truly losing a brother for the first time- suddenly death wasn't inevitable, it was a very real thing (I do believe (read as I'm in denial) he survived and became CX-2). They were mourning a brother that they would never see again.

They went back to Cid's for AZI bc they didn't have a medic and Omega needed one which turned out to be a bad decision, but one they made while heartbroken, so without Tech there they didn't stop to think, couldn't stop to think if there wasn't another place to go (or to get AZI and get out of there immediately)

They didn't even have the time to properly mourn him, bc Cid betrayed them and suddenly they lost more of their family. They were desperate and heartbroken and everything had gone wrong.

(I also want to say we were robbed of seeing Crosshair react to Tech's death, we know he knows but we never saw how he reacted when they told him)

remember in S2 when Tech said "This squad existed before Echo was a part of it, and it will exist after."

and then in S3 Crosshair said "Clone Force 99 died with Tech. We're not that squad anymore."

i just think about this a lot.

If I'm crying today, you are as well

Do you ever just go about your day, sip your little drink, open your little email, and then remember that Hardcase—our chaos ADHD king, our walking serotonin shot, our human thermal detonator—sacrificed himself with a grin and a quip so his brothers could escape? That he went out in a blaze of glory, piloting a stolen ship with literally no plan except “blow stuff up real good,” and the last thing he said was "live to fight another day boys, live to fight another day"???

Hardcase, who never stopped calling his brothers “sir” even when they told him to quit it. Hardcase, who probably never got promoted because he was “reckless.” Hardcase, who loved flying and loud noises and sunshine and probably didn’t understand why no one ever let him just have fun—and then he died for everyone else. Just. Like. That.

Do you ever remember Echo? Sweet, by-the-books, “regulations exist for a reason” Echo who lost everything and kept surviving anyway? Echo who got blown up during a rescue mission, turned into a cybernetic lab rat, hooked up to machines like a tool, stripped of his name, his agency, his brotherhood—and he still came back.

He came back and found out Fives was gone. He came back and the war was ending only to find out there was no end to begin with. He came back and nothing was the same, and he still kept going. That man has literally had half his body replaced with cyber-grade hardware and he's still more human than some Jedi.

Do you ever think about Fives? Fives who figured it out. Fives who knew about the chips. Fives who died saying the truth. He didn’t go down in glory. He wasn’t martyred. He bled out in a hangar, shaking and crying and trying to tell the people he trusted that everything was a lie. And NOBODY BELIEVED HIM. They said he lost his mind. THEY. SAID. HE LOST. HIS MIND.

Fives who just wanted to be loyal. Who just wanted to protect his brothers. Who died trying to save them all and didn’t live to see a single one freed.

Do you remember Jesse? That sweet, noble ARC trooper who wore the Republic symbol on his face like a badge of honor and who looked absolutely shattered when he turned on Ahsoka. He didn’t want to. You could see it. You could feel the war inside him. But the chip won. Because "good soldiers follow orders".

Do you remember Tup? That sweet, soft-spoken clone who glitched first. Who killed two jedi, because “Good soldiers follow orders,” like he was possessed. Because he was. Because the war broke him open before anyone was ready.

Do you ever remember Waxer and Boil? Waxer who kept an eye on a scared little Twi'lek girl Numa through a war zone. Waxer who died seeing his brothers were turning against each other because of Krell and his lies, and who apologized with his dying breath?

Do you remember that clones had names? Do you remember that they named themselves? That they forged their identities with paint and banter and nicknames and loyalty and found joy in being individuals even when everything about their existence was designed to erase that?

Do you remember that they aged twice as fast and weren’t supposed to live long enough to get tired?

That the GAR never intended to care for them after the war? That there was no post-war plan? That the Empire swept them aside for cheaper labor?

That Rex had to watch his brothers turn, die, disappear, and he STILL fought in the rebellion with a heart twice the size of Coruscant???

Do you ever think about how the clones were raised in pods, trained like blaster fodder, taught to say “Yes sir” and never think twice, and still found ways to be brave and kind and funny and GOOD???

DO YOU???

Anyway. I’m normal. Totally fine. Just sitting here naming my coffee cups after 501st troopers and crying into my caf. Would die for every single one of them. Even Dogma. ESPECIALLY Dogma. And Rex. And Fives. And Hardcase. And Echo. And Waxer. And-

looks like i have the gift of prophecy because....

AO3 got fucking scraped again for gen AI purposes!

AO3 got scraped for gen AI purposes again, a ton of works were included.

There's been DMCA requests and it looks like some/most? of it has been taken down, thankfully. Still. I highly highly recommend that everyone lock all their works to the archive right now. I can't force you to, but I strongly suggest that you do. Don't let them scrape your work in the future. It sucks losing guest interaction but. Would you rather feed the AI slop?

For people who guest comment: Make an AO3 account! You have to wait a bit for an invite but it's worth it i promise!!

For artists specifically: I recommend that you look into Glaze and/or Nightshade. There's also these disruption filters, it's not clear how well these actually work, but you're welcome to try them. Glaze is supposed to work best, though.

It looks like you can see the status of the datasets here

And how to submit DMCA or copyright violation

I'll say it again: FUCK AI THAT STEALS PEOPLE'S ART AND WRITING!!!!

I didn't know this fic existed, but I've just read it and it's the best thing that ever happened to me 😂😂😂😂

You guys remember « The Legend of Liob », right?

Eepy

We need this

Soulmate name marks au where Obi-Wan and Cody dont figure it out for the LONGEST time because their marks, which display a person's chosen or true name which often corresponds to a given name but not always, say "Ben" and "Kote"

okay but HEAR ME OUT...anidala meets wandavision au. somehow in the midst of the empire, anakin manages to establish some reality in which he’s anakin again and padmé is alive and they’re just a happy little family with the twins on some utopian planet. but the emperor finds out and is trying to get through to vader and so there’s a lot of conflict and random spurts of darkness and padmé is starting to kind of figure it out but then—but then obi-wan shows up in the reality and just...it hits the fan.